Message Reinforcement For Our DNC Convention Goers

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

A hat tip to our good friends over at Daily Kos who are promoting the John McCain house key ring for our DNC Convention goers.  This is an all-in-good-fun way to mock John McCain for being so fabulously wealthy that he cannot remember the number of houses he owns.  Is it 7-8-9-10-11-12 –ah, who the hell really knows?

It is also a creative way to remind Americans that John McCain is completely out of touch and has no common experience or empathy with your every day "kitchen table" concerns.  John McCain’s chief economics adviser, Phil Gramm, whom McCain calls his "economics guru," says that you are a "nation of whiners."

The average American is having to work harder and longer, sometimes two and even three jobs just to make ends meet, only to see their real wages (in real dollars) continue to decline every year.  The average American fears being laid off or losing their job, or seeing their job outsourced to some third-world country never to return.  The average American worries about making their mortgage payment, or for many Americans, fears foreclosure and bankruptcy.  Other Americans are concerned over seeing their only "wealth" asset, their home, plummet in value, and their neighborhood turned into a blighted community of foreclosed or abandoned homes.  The average American worries about losing their employer-sponsored health insurance or no longer being able to afford the rising cost of health insurance premiums and deductibles, and the rising cost of medical care.  The average American fears seeing their retirement pension disappear when the company they worked for all their lives files for bankruptcy.  The average American retiree fears that their social security will not be enough, that they may have to choose between paying for necessary prescription drugs or eating a meal today.  The average American has seen what little expendable income they had disappear to pay for rising prices for gas in their car and food on their table. 

John McCain’s biggest concern today will be in which one of his houses will he lay his head down to sleep tonight, and his morning routine of taking a nine vehicle secret service detail to the local Starbucks for his morning cup of cappuccino.

John McCain cannot begin to conceive of the financial fear and suffering the average American has experienced as a result of the failed economic policies of George W. Bush, failed economic policies which McCain promises to continue and make worse.  McCain has no empathy for your pain.  You are just a "nation of whiners" to him.

I wanted to add my own suggestion to the McCain house key ring idea.  Those of you old enough to remember the original Bob Newhart Show may recall a drinking game called "Bob."  Every time a character in the show said "Bob," you had to down a shot of booze.  When the writers of the Bob Newhart Show learned about it, they upped the ante. They had the characters in the show respond to Bob Newhart with "Bob, Bob, Bob…"  This was Bob Newhart’s little joke on his fans, who wound up passed-out drunk on the floor by the end of the half hour.

I tell this story only to suggest to convention goers that you bring your John McCain house key ring to the convention and every time you hear a speaker say "McCain," jangle your keys.  The McMedia covering the convention will not be able to ignore this noisy demonstration and will be forced to talk about how John McCain is "out of touch" with the concerns of average Americans. This is how message reinforcement is done.

I hope that our Arizona delegation will pass the word.  Now go out there and make us proud!